Oak View Elementary

Oak View Elementary is a primary school of average-sized scale in High Point, North Carolina, part of Guilford County Schools, serveing 491 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 123 schools in Guilford County Schools (68,535 students total), Oak View Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Oak View Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 12% White, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Oak View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Oak View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Guilford County (around 89%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -15.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Guilford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Guilford County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), of which Oak View Elementary is one.

Shadybrook Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak View Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oak View Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Oak View Elementary's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 534 (now 491). White enrollment moved from 17% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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